Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 29 / Andrew Village, Ralph W. Hood.

• TeilnehmendeR: Village, Andrew,; Hood, Ralph W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (426 pages)

The general papers in Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 29 cover a range of topics including psychological type, prayer, nature and well-being, psychobiography, coping with addiction, and the role of place in spirituality. The first special section on congregational studies draws on a range of large datasets from the National Church Life Surveys in Australia. Papers examine the factors that predict individual sense of belonging in Catholic parishes as well as congregational-level aspects of vitality, collective confidence, and innovativeness. The second special section examines the Ideological Surround Model and how it can help to better understand expressions of faith related to psychological constructs such as mindfulness, fundamentalism, and the ‘Dark Triad’ of Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Manuscript Invitation -- Authors’ Biographies -- Ordering the Mess: Psychological Type Profiles of Adults in Messy Church Congregations / Amanda Dawn Aspland -- The Psychological Temperament of Catholic Priests and Religious Sisters in Italy: An Empirical Enquiry / Leslie J. Francis and Giuseppe Crea -- The Psychological Type of Individuals Attracted to Celtic Christianity Compared with the Psychological Type of Anglican Congregations / Gill Hall and Douglas Hall -- Lighting Candles and Writing Prayers: Observing Opportunities for Spiritual Practices in Churches in Rural Cornwall / Tania ap Siôn -- Investigating the Many Facets of Spirituality that Mediate the Relationship between Exposure to Nature and Psychological Well-Being / Brooke M. Ruf , David C. Wang and John K. Williams -- A Nonviolent Identity: A Psychobiographical Study of an Islamic Scholar / Tomas Lindgren -- The Pragmatic Believer—Faith Development and Personal Experiences of a ‘Higher Power’ in Seasoned Members of Narcotics Anonymous / John-Kåre Vederhus and Magnhild Høie -- The Circle of Place Spirituality (CoPS): Towards an Attachment and Exploration Motivational Systems Approach in the Psychology of Religion / Victor Counted -- The Place of Place within the Attachment-Religion Framework: A Commentary on the Circle of Place Spirituality / Joel Gruneau Brulin and Pehr Granqvist -- The National Church Life Survey in Australia -- Twenty-Five Years of Data on Australian Churches: Strengths and Limitations / Miriam Pepper , Ruth Powell , Sam Sterland and Nicole Hancock -- Vitality in Protestant Congregations: A Large Scale Empirical Analysis of Underlying Factors across Four Countries / Sam Sterland , Ruth Powell , Miriam Pepper and Nicole Hancock -- Newcomers and Collective Confidence in Protestant Churches: A Longitudinal Study from 2001 to 2011 / Sam Sterland , Ruth Powell , Nicole Hancock , Miriam Pepper and Martin Dowson -- Why Do They Belong? Factors Influencing Sense of Belonging in Australian Catholic Parishes / Robert Dixon and Dharmalingam Arunachalam -- Local Churches and Innovativeness: An Empirical Study of 2800 Australian Churches / Ruth Powell and Miriam Pepper -- Applications of the Ideological Surround Model -- Mindfulness within a Muslim Ideological Surround: Empirical Translation Schemes and Religious and Psychological Functioning of Islamic Seminarians in Iran / Nima Ghorbani , P. J. Watson , Fazlollaha Tavakoli and Zhuo Job Chen -- Fundamentalism within an Indian Ideological Surround: Commitment to Religious Tradition Predicts Hindu Openness / Shanmukh V. Kamble , P. J. Watson , Deepti B. Duggi and Zhuo Job Chen -- Sanctification of Learning and Religious Openness: Contrasts across Religious Fundamentalist and Biblical Foundationalist Ideological Surrounds / P. J. Watson , Zhuo Job Chen and Ronald J. Morris -- Religion within a Dark Triad Ideological Surround: Pluralistic Self as Dialogue across Private, Communal, and Public Space / P. J. Watson , Zhuo Job Chen , Ronald J. Morris and Nima Ghorbani -- Back Matter -- Index.